After weeks of mapping out areas to easily get sources for a documentary on drug addiction in Lagos, I set out very early on April 12 after asking myself one last time if documenting the lives of drug addicts is something I really want to do. I concluded it was another opportunity to tell stories […]
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It was a month to Saleh Inusa’s* 14th birthday. Looking dishevelled, the primary school dropout was sniffing a bottle of glue known locally as “sholisho”. He was seated close to a large open drain that serves as an unofficial public toilet for Almajirai (young nomadic seekers of Islamic knowledge) and homeless people in the ancient, […]
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In a bid to check rampant cases of human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has rescued 71 victims and apprehended three suspected human traffickers in Kano State as well as a lady suspected to be running a fake orphanage in Abuja for profit through the sale […]
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Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency (PHIMA) has intercepted cartons of suspected fake medical consumables. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Usman Tijjani Aliyu, made this known while displaying some of the items confiscated in Kano on Monday. He said the items consisted of Eusol solution, Gential violet and tincture of iodine meant […]
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